Discover how painters such as Van Gogh Mondrian and Jacoba van Heemskerck drew on the legacy
of Dutch landscapes and realism to put their own spin on the Impressionist movement.
Impressionism may have originated in France but artists in late 19th- and early 20th-century
Netherlands quickly made it their own. The genre's vibrant colors and focus on light and
atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country's groundbreaking traditions of landscape
painting and realism. This exhibition catalog brings together hundreds of works by nearly forty
artists including Johan Barthold Jongkind Vincent van Gogh Jacoba van Heemskerck and Piet
Mondrian. It traces the birth of the Hague School whose practitioners captured the changing
moods of light in the coastline's vast grey skies. And it explores the Amsterdam
Impressionists whose cityscapes offered realistic images of modern life. Alongside vibrant
reproductions of masterworks a series of lively essays explore a diverse array of topics
including Dutch landscape painting within an international context Dutch artist settlements
and communities and iconography in Dutch impressionism.
